Are Alt Weeklies Over?

March 5, 2014

By: Baynard Woods | New York Times

When the Baltimore Sun Media Group recently&nbsp;announced&nbsp;that it was buying the Baltimore City Paper, the local alternative weekly where I work as an editor, the prognosis for aggressive, independent journalism in Baltimore was pretty grim. Tom Scocca, a reporter who used to work at City Paper, declared that the city was now one step closer to being a &ldquo;zero newspaper town.&rdquo;